Start: Apr 7 2015 19:00 End: Apr 7 2015 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Katherine Phelps: Storytelling for Digital Media • Daniel Hall: Deploying Microservices Effectively Katherine Phelps: Storytelling for Digital Media To create a story for a computer game it's useful to know what is possible and how plot needs to be structured in order to tell a compelling narrative in an interactive environment. Katherine will take you through, step-by-step, the basic approaches to digital storytelling. In this way you can create an effective and original digital adventure. Katherine Phelps BA (Hons), MFA, PhD is an expert in storytelling for digital media. She has been a lecturer and post-graduate supervisor at RMIT and Victoria University, specialising in storytelling for computer game design. She has written for Nickelodeon Cartoons and been writer/producer for numerous comedy festival shows, garnering awards for her scripts and a five star review. Daniel Hall: Deploying Microservices Effectively We have all heard how Microservices are changing the way people are building applications. They allow developers to build strict componentization between services and make things much easier to maintain in the long run. They allow you to make your deployments fast, efficient and much less dangerous. At LIFX we wanted to take advantage of microservices but as a startup we don't have the same budget that everyone else does. Luckily using a combination of Docker, Apache Mesos, Marathon and Chronos we have built an architecture that allows us to effectively utilise microservices. Even though each of our services have drastically different requirements we can now use our available computing power in the most effective way. This talk is aimed at systems administrators who are grappling with the complexities of deploying web services or want to get a high level overview on how Docker, Marathon and Mesos can work together to make your life easier. Daniel Hall manages cloud services for IoT (Internet of Things) company LIFX. When not playing with pretty lights he spends time working on RatticDB. Daniel also wrote Ansible Configuration Management, which will shortly be in its second edition. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.